"With your DVR you can watch the documentary long after Disney."
Unfortunately, as far as I know, there are no home DVRs that will work with streaming devices the way they will with a cable TV service or OTA, because a stream is a digital signal and the DVRs are analog. I have a Tivo that I used for years, and it has been collecting dust since I ditched cable and went to streaming because there's no way to connect it to the Roku device. I know Tivo offers a streaming device, but it's not a recording device - it runs any streaming app you can find on Google Play, but it doesn't record the content locally.
With streaming, the content stays at the source. Streaming services that are not totally on-demand like Hulu, YouTubeTV, Sling, etc., usually offer a cloud DVR with different capacities and retention times, but what basically happens is that when you "record" a program in the cloud, you're just setting some sort of pointer to the content on their service that you can replay at a future point in time. If you discontinue the service - or if they cancel their contract with the provider - you lose all that stuff you thought you "recorded". There are two applications I'm aware of that claim to be able to capture streaming data to your local hard drive, but their legality has been in question so I personally wouldn't go near them.
"And yes, that's Salma Hayek playing all five nurses."
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